Hiring Your First Employee Without Regret

The first hire changes a business more than any other. Get it wrong and it costs money and confidence.\n\nWrite the role as a list of outcomes, not tasks. Test candidates with a small piece of real work. Check two references properly. And spend the first two weeks training deliberately rather than hoping they will pick it up.\n\nThe cost of a careful hiring process is always lower than the cost of a bad hire.